{"id":7166,"date":"2013-01-28T11:40:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T10:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=7166"},"modified":"2013-01-28T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T10:52:10","slug":"google-explains-how-it-handles-police-requests-for-users-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2013\/01\/28\/google-explains-how-it-handles-police-requests-for-users-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Explains How It Handles Police Requests For Users&#8217; Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/01\/28\/170428992\/google-posts-how-it-handles-requests-for-users-data\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7170\" title=\"Google Explains How It Handles Police Requests For Users' Data\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/130128_google.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Google wants you to know you&#8217;re being watched. Or rather, the company  wants you to know how and when the police get to watch what you do  online. For the first time, the company has posted its policies  for when it gives up your information to the government. It&#8217;s part of a  broader company strategy to push for tougher privacy laws. Tech  companies don&#8217;t usually dwell on the subject of the authorities looking  at your stuff but that&#8217;s exactly what Google Senior Vice President and  Chief Legal Officer David Drummond is doing in a special &#8220;Frequently  Asked Questions&#8221; page posted Monday. &#8220;The new thing is that  we&#8217;re actually sort of saying in a granular way, product by product, how  it is that we handle the requests,&#8221; Drummond says. The company  has posted the information for the four Google products that attract  the most requests from police. For Google Voice, for instance, you can  look up what the cops would need to listen in to your voice mails. It  says they need a search warrant \u2013 which means they&#8217;d first have to show  a judge &#8220;probable cause&#8221; of a crime. Police face less of a challenge,  though, to find out who owns a particular Gmail address. All that takes  is a subpoena \u2013 no probable cause required and \u2013 often \u2013 no judge. Image: google.com. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/01\/28\/170428992\/google-posts-how-it-handles-requests-for-users-data\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: USA |  Company: Google\u00c2\u00a0 | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/01\/28\/170428992\/google-posts-how-it-handles-requests-for-users-data\" target=\"_blank\">National Public Radio<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google wants you to know you&#8217;re being watched. Or rather, the company wants you to know how and when the police get to watch what you do online. For the first time, the company has posted its policies for when it gives up your information to the government. It&#8217;s part of a broader company strategy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[178],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-7166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-google","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7166"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=7166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}